Marilynne Robinson /
Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers Series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- <P>Introduction
- Rachel Sykes, Jennifer Daly, and Anna Maguire Elliott<br>Robinson in context: A critical discussion
- Sarah Churchwell, Richard H. King, Bridget Bennett<br><br>Writing, form, and style<br>1 'It might be better to burn them': Archive fever and the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson
- Daniel King<br>2 'One day she would tell him what she knew': Disturbance of the epistemological conventions of the marriage plot in <i>Lila</i>
- Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo<br>3 Robinson's triumphs of style
- Jack Baker<br><br>Gender and environment<br>4 The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i> and <i>Lila</i>
- Anna Maguire Elliott<br>5 Souls all unaccompanied: Enacting feminine alterity in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i>
- Makayla Steiner<br>6 The domestic geographies of grief: Bereavement, time and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i> and <i>Home</i>
- Lucy Clarke<br><br>Imagined histories: Race, religion, and rights<br>7 Domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Home</i>
- Christopher Lloyd<br>8 'Onward Christian liberals': Marilynne Robinson's essays and the crisis of mainline Protestantism
- Alexander Engebretson<br>9 Presence in absence: The spectre of race in <i>Gilead</i> and <i>Home</i>
- Emily Hammerton-Barry<br><br>Robinson and her contemporaries<br>10 'Everything can change': Civil rights, civil war and radical transformation in <i>Home</i> and <i>Gilead</i>
- Tessa Roynon<br>11 'A great admirer of American education': Robinson as professor and defender of 'America's best idea'
- Steve Gronert Ellerhoff and Kathryn E. Engebretson<br>12 Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell
- Paul Jenner<br><br>Epilogue
- 'A little different every time': Accumulation and repetition in <i>Jack</i>
- Rachel Sykes</p>
